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Hello there and welcome to Run Pod. I'm Jenny Falkler and this week we'll have a very special guest and she is motivated.

She loves running. She started running only in 2009 but since then, well, she has done it all.

She's a run coach, a PT, an ultra runner. She's got a book on running. She's co-founded the charity Black Trail Runners.

She's now also got a running event called Black to the Trails. She's a very busy runner, but she is going to share some tips with you now.

Well, listen, it's such an honour to be joined by you, a running coach extraordinaire, Sabrina Pace Humphreys, as well as just running enthusiasts, that I feel like as a running coach, I should ask you for a few tips, which might be questions that, you know,

that the Rumpold Club members, the Rumpord Run Club members have. So I just wondered,

what is your like top tip for people just getting started out and running? What's the one

thing they have to do or be aware of? I think ditch any expectation of woulda, shoulda,

coulda. Like, you are where you are right now like I always start

any run with like a body scan like how do I feel from my feet to my knees to my hips to my core to my

shoulders to my head like be present life is busy there's so much demanding on our time, but ditch this whole,

oh, well, next door can do a mile in. Like, no, you are where you are and just be present in that.

That's what I would say, you know, these expectations and, you know, putting ourselves,

pitting ourselves against somebody that's doing it,

it's just going to take us to dark places. So just be present where you are right now.

Such a good tip. Also, the other thing, when you start out, you're not just looking at what they're

doing. You also are filled with fears, like what people might think of you. What do you find

when you're working with people that are new to running,

what are their biggest fears? I think their biggest fear, especially as women, I can start there.

I think women fear or worry about safety. And I lead a women's running community here where I live

in Gloucestershire. and it is around am I safe to

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